Wednesday 24 February 2016
The forecast for the day was pretty bang on with light winds from behind most of the day dying to no wind overnight. Just before breakfast the call was made for our downwind spinnaker aka the parasailor to be hoisted. The parasailor is a very distinctive sail as it has a horizontal slot and wing…
Tuesday 23 February 2016
At 8.30am local time Adina slipped lines and left Ao Po marina on the east coast of Phuket, Thailand, bound for Galle, Sri Lanka, 1120 nautical miles away. The night before we were kindly treated to dinner by Mike Kefford of sailing yacht Tashi Delek, a great friend and one of those true gentlemen in…
Sunday 21 February 2016
A look at the blog and it’s clearly a little dusty. Time flies! So Christmas was enjoyed in Langkawi, Malaysia, primarily meeting people doing the same as us preparing to cross the Indian Ocean this year. We based ourselves in Rebak Marina which is part of a resort where they put on a superb Christmas…
Friday 12 February 2016
Satellite imagery has been a vital navigation tool enabling Susie and I to sail to many of the off the beaten track places we have so enjoyed visiting. We’ve detailed the how, why, and good and bad of it all over eight pages in the March edition of Yachting Monthly – click here to see…
Sunday 17 January 2016
It all started as we were moving Adina from Singapore to Malaysia when Susie piped up, “I’ve been thinking”, “Yes?”, “What do you think about the idea of sailing around South Africa?” Ideas are always a good thing, good ideas are even better. Of course ideas must be followed up, researched and if the results…
Friday 25 December 2015
Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas! We hope you have a lovely day, wherever you are, whatever you have planned. We are in Langkawi, Malaysia and enjoyed a fabulous ‘pot luck’ dinner ashore with fellow cruisers last night. Christmas day we’ve been for a morning walk and then Tom did a champagne breakfast and next we are headed…
Thursday 24 December 2015
So 24,000 miles and two years and nine months later Adina has reached Malaysia and we find ourselves at a crossroad. In fact it’s not a crossroad, it’s a three-way junction. Each of those roads is signposted ‘Home, London, England’. And despite the fact that we do love life in London with all of our…